I'll say they'll be marginally better than last year, they'll win 58 or 59 games. I believe the Marlins will finish with a worse record than Houston.

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"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all."- Former Orioles Manager Earl WeaverGo Sox and Go Bearcats!

The Astros have some top prospects who could step in now and improve the compete level, like Cosart and Springer (who's leading the minors in HRs), but why waste a pre-arb year on these guys when they'll still lose +/- 100 games, especially if they may have higher ceilings with substantially more minor league development time.